On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > A lot of it is down to Windows, as the actual complaint is:- > > six.print_(source) > File "C:\Python35\lib\encodings\cp1252.py", line 19, in encode > return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0] > UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\u202f' in > position 407: character maps to <undefined> > > And as usual I've answered my own question. The cp1252 shows even if my > console is set to 65001, *BUT* I'm piping the output to file as it's so much > faster. Having taken five minutes to run the code without the pipe > everything runs to completion. > > I suppose the original question still holds, but I for one certainly won't > be losing any sleep over it. Talking of which, good night all :)
Oh. Windows. Suddenly it all makes sense. Python source code is (as of 3.0) Unicode text, and is assumed to be stored as UTF-8 if not otherwise specified. If Windows can't handle that, too bad for Windows. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list